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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Post navigation.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup. If this is the case then all bets are off.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We spent $20k on their MVP.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We spent $20k on their MVP.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0